Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew we were going to have a stormy passage right away , ’ said Milestone . |
| 2 | They just found this bomb and they were going to have a controlled explosion at the car park |
| 3 | Table tennis was their main sport , so of course , just by sheer numbers and probability , they were going to have a fantastic team . |
| 4 | ‘ We were going to have a nice family Christmas . |
| 5 | The pictures were going to have a final edit anyway it certainly was not simply a question of the controversy which started late last week . ’ |
| 6 | Er when you did get a suit it had to be kept for Sunday , for going to chapel you see , and if you were going to have a new suit it would always be at anniversary time , you did n't get one every anniversary . |
| 7 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 8 | We were going to have a special meal … . |
| 9 | I remember because in nineteen thirty eight , er we were scheduled to have an opening in about the September and we got a team coming down to play us at football and we were going to have a social evening , darts and that , at , in the evening and of course at that particular time , the war was a definite threat . |
| 10 | And we were sitting having a wee drink |
| 11 | And tonight he was going to have a good time . |
| 12 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 13 | She was going to have a telepathic communication with her grandfather . |
| 14 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
| 15 | He was going to have a busy day tomorrow . |
| 16 | At the same time as these theories were being explored in the world of school — theories designed to make the pupil the equal of the teacher — the concept of equality was beginning to have a powerful effect on education in a more overtly political sense . |
| 17 | Although Glumdalclitch tried to make things as comfortable as possible for me , such an exhausting life was beginning to have a bad effect on my health . |
| 18 | In the Pastoral Epistles the noun presbyters often appears in the plural , bishop in the singular , suggesting that one man was beginning to have a special position in both worship and charitable administration . |
| 19 | It can not have been easy , as at this time photography was beginning to have a profound impact upon this branch of the arts , being more fashionable , cheaper , and offering the promise of greater veracity . |
| 20 | ‘ To tell the truth , I was hoping to have a quick word with Mrs Amy Edgerton … |
| 21 | In the gap I was planning to have a whole lot of lights and electronic valves which could light up and flash when the Dalek was agitated about anything . |